Blu ray burner question - FCP X

I am getting ready to purchase my first blu ray burner.
I make 2 hour videos and the files become quite large. Mostly natively ingested camera video utilizing motion templates, titles. transitions, vo, music, etc.
1. Do I need a 128G capacity burner?
2. What is the best quality burner at around $150-300?
3. Do I need Toast due the size of my output?
Thanks
Sandra

I don't know about the best Blu-ray burner to get (although I would check out those at OWC) but I DO know that you will need Toast Titanium with the Blu-ray option to burn to Blu-ray as OS X doesn't natively support burning Blu-ray.
Go to the OWC website - I think that they sell Toast Titanium at a good price with some of their BR devices.
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Thanks for the reply, Johnny.
I wasn't saying AC3 s*u*c*k*s. And really.. Why is that word censored? I didn't do that.
I was saying it ***** that you ONLY have the option of AC3 with the "Share to blu-ray" feature.
And yea, I'm sure I would never know the differene, and especially not my grandparents with their home movies.
But it just seems d*u*m*b (can I say that?) to be going through all this trouble for a "lossless" lineage, ie. HD camera, FCP, Blu-ray burner/player, and have to compress the audio. Isn't that one of the main advantages of blu-ray?! Quality? Wether we can detect it or not?! Ha!. Okay..
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Though I'll feel cheated! Guess that's what I get for loving BOTH Apple and Blu-ray....
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The bit rate of the video file exceeded the maximum allowable.
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What Blu-ray burner do you have? Is it recognized in the Device Manager under DVD/CD-ROM drives? Driver and Firmware up to date?
What burn software came with the Blu-ray burner? If it is part of the CyberLink family, can you use the PowerProducer of the series to burn to Blu-ray disc format on a Blu-ray disc using these Blu-ray discs that Premiere Elements burn dialog is labelling "Media Not Present"? I would like to see the results of that test if possible.
Just to get it out of the way (maybe helpful), let us flush the preferences...
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Local Disk C
Users
Owner
AppData
Roaming
Adobe
Premiere Elements
11
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It's a complex project and there are a lot of possibilities. Among them is the length; there are a number of reports of projects that are approaching 2 hours failing to burn.
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Dear Robert,
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Can anybody recommend a reliable external blu-ray burner that I can use on my iMac? I'm using FCE 4 and Toast 10 to burn HD DVDs and am happy with the quality, but would like to put more than 20 minutes of HD on a disc. Thanks!

Toast is a software package from Roxio that allows you to burn HD recordings. There's a few others available but it seems to be the most popular. You can do up to 20 minutes of HD on a standard DVD using a standard DVD burner, but to go longer (up to 2 hours on a dual layer disc) you will need a Blu Ray burner. And of course to view either HD DVD or blu-ray, you'll need a blu ray player. HD DVDs will not play on a standard DVD player.
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http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2189960
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